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Fashion retailers partner to offer personalized AI styling tool ‘Ella’ | Insights by Willow Ventures

The Launch of Ella: Vivrelle’s AI Personal Styling Tool Vivrelle, a premier luxury membership platform specializing in renting high-end goods, has unveiled its innovative AI personal styling tool, Ella. This exciting development comes as a result of a collaboration with leading fashion retailers Revolve and FWRD. Revolutionizing Fashion with AI The introduction of Ella exemplifies […]

Key Trends, Data & Insights to Boost Conversions | Insights by Willow Ventures

Lead generation is changing as a result of artificial intelligence. Businesses are employing AI to favor quality over quantity, from predictive analytics that predict purchasing behavior to AI-driven lead scoring that gives priority to high-value prospects. E-commerce companies are also using AI to recommend upsells at the point of sale, increasing conversions without spending more […]

How to keep your emails out of the spam folder | Insights by Willow Ventures

Back in 2003, I was working with my first big consulting client, Hasbro. (Yes, that Hasbro. And yes, it was as fun as you’d imagine.) Sitting on my desk at the time — dog-eared, tea-stained, salsa-splotched — was a multi-page document I treated like sacred scripture: the spam trigger word list.

What age should kids get their first phone? Younger than you think | Insights by Willow Ventures

If you’re a parent, you’ve probably grappled with the question of when your kid should get a smartphone. There’s a nationwide movement, Wait Until 8th, that argues that devices should be kept out of kids’ hands until they’re deep into middle school. Some families manage to hold out even longer. Andrew Przybylski, a professor of […]

Netflix’s animated Tomb Raider series is ending with its second season | Insights by Willow Ventures

Netflix has a pair of updates about its animated Tomb Raider show. The second season of Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will air on the streaming service on December 11. However, that second season will also be the final one for the project. Legendary Television is behind the show, which in October 2024 […]

How Google’s AI can help transform health professions education | Insights by Willow Ventures

Acknowledgements The research described here is a joint effort across Google Research, Google for Health, Google DeepMind, and partnering teams. The following researchers contributed to this work: Kevin McKee, Dan Gillick, Irina Jurenka, Markus Kunesch, Kaiz Alarakyia, Miriam Schneider, Jenn Sturgeon, Maggie Shiels, Amy Wang, Roma Ruparel, Anna Iurchenko, Mahvish Nagda, Julie Anne Séguin, Divya […]

What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition? | Insights by Willow Ventures

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival closed-source systems such as OpenAI’s Whisper. Beyond just releasing model weights, AI2 has published training data identifiers, filtering steps, training recipes, and benchmark scripts—an unusually transparent move in the ASR space. This makes OLMoASR one […]

Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M | Insights by Willow Ventures

Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash. “Today’s browsers weren’t built for work; they were built for browsing. This deal is a bold step forward in reimagining the browser for knowledge work in the AI era,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s […]